Grindstaff, Beverly K.

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Spring 2007: T/12.00-2.00; W/10.00-12.00pm; R/12.00-1.00pm

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Univ Of Cal-Los Angeles, 2004

Bio

I received my Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles where I studied
under Albert Boime and Donald Preziosi. My areas of specialization are Nineteenth
and Twentieth Century Art of Europe and America, with an emphasis on Germany from
1800 through 1945, and Critical Theory. I have presented papers and published on
topics including Deutscher Werkbund theory and practice, the official aesthetics of
National Socialist Germany and Soviet Russia, programs of national cohesiveness promoted
by Depression-era Fine Arts Section murals, and the construction of ethno-national
identity at the World's Fairs. A common theme unifying my work is the construction
of identity through the aesthetic formats of the fine arts, popular culture, design,
the museum, and formal theories of aesthetics.